Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-26
and the men most to be pitied are those
who conduct business while
PRICES APE FALLING.

PRICES AXE FALLING,
and yet try to pay their clerks and en-
ploYes, and ere in such fearful straits that
they would quit business Tomorrow il Il
were not for the wreck and rum OF others.
When people tell me ct what q ruinously
low price they purchased an srticle, it
gives NE more dismey than satisfaction.
| know it means the bankruptcy and de-
falcation OF men in many departments.
i The men who toll with the brain need full
as much sympathy SIS those who toll with
the hand, All business lie is struck
through with suspicion. and panics are
only the result Of want CT confidence.
The pressure to do wrong is all the
stronger from the fact that in our day the
large business houses are swallowing up
the smaller, the whsles dining or blue
fish and minuows. The large houses I'M
dersell the small ones because they can
afford il. They csn afford to make
nothing, or actually lose, on some styles
.of goods, assured they cGn make it up on
others. So a great dry goods house goes
outside Of its regular line and
sells books ct cost or less than
cost, and that s1smps the book
sellers; or, the dry goods house sells
brio z orsC 8. lowest figures, that sWamps
same thing goes on in other styles OF
merchandise, and the consequence i9 that
I'll along the business streets Of our
cities there are merchants of small CAPT.
tai who are in terrible struggle to keep
their heads above water. TIE CunardeTs
run down the Newfoundland fishing
smacks. There is nothing against the
man who has the big store. for every man
has as large store and IS CREST ousi-
ness as he can manage. To feel right
and do right under all this pressure re-
quiIes martyr grace, requires divine sup
port, requires celestial reinforcement.
Yet there are tens OF thousands of such
men getting splendidly through. They
see others going W and themselves going
down, but they keep their patience, and
their courage, and their Christian con-
sistencY, ara after awhile their turn OF
success viii come. The owners OF the
big business Will die and their boys will
get possession OF the business, and, with s
CIGAR N THEIR MOUTH,
and full to the chin of the best liquor, anQ
: behind p2ir Of spanking bays they will
pass everything on the turnpike rosd to
temporal and eternsl pardition. Their
: the business will break up and the smaller
, dealers VIII nave fair opportunity. Oh
. the spirit Of CUnte1tmeIt and right feel
: ing viii take possession Of the large firm
Sa recently in the case Of the grea
crest house If A. a. Low & Co., and the
a firm will say; "We have enough money
, tor eli cur needa, and the needs Of GU
, children; now let US dissolve business
and make way for other men IN the SANE
line" Instead OF being startled st 3 soil
tary instance Of magnanimlty, as in TIT
case jus. mentioned, it will become
, common thing. 1 know OF scores Of grea
! business houses that have hsd Their OPP
p0rIunity Of vast accumulation, sud Wa
{ ought 70 quit. But perhaps Cor all III
| days CT this generation the struggle o
: | small houses to keep alive under the over
: shoG0Wlng pressure OF great houses Wi
p continue; therefore, taking t5ings as the
{. are, you viii be wise TO preserve you
equilibrium, and your honesty, and you
n faith, quo throw over all inc counters
! and shelves, Gnd barrels, and hOgsheads
y and cotton tales, and rice casks, IN
y measuring line Of divine right. "Aad tn
d Lord said unto ne, Amos, what SET:
thou? and l ssid, plumb liue."
In the same WGy we need to measur
iour the0Iogies. All sorts OF religions CT
e putting forth their professions. Sem
e have e spiritualistic religion, and the
II chief WORK is with ghosts, and others
:, religion OF political economy prOposin
T. TO put ar end 30 human misery by g ne
3, style Of taxation, and there is human
q tartan religion tnat looks sitter the bod
&c CT men anu lets the
a SOUL LOOK AFTER ITSELF,
q and there is 5 legislative religion tbs
t. proposes to rsctify all wrongs by enac
% ment Of better laws. and there is an az
l. thetic religion that by rules of eXquisit
le taste would lift the heart out OF It's de
4 formitjes, snd religions Of all sorts-rt
lie IigioEs by the peck, religions by Il
u square loot, and religions by the toG-s
: Of them devices of the devil that WCuI
q take the heart sway from the only r
v ligion thst will ever effect anything Il
Of the human race, and that is the straigI
e up-enG-down religion written in the boo
d which begins with Genesis and ends vii
as Revelation; the religion Of the skies, Il
le old religion, the God-given religion, Il
y everlasting religion, which says: "Lo'
IL God above al, and your neighbor IS you
self" All religions but the one beg
De at the wrong end and in the wrong plGC
Is The Bible religion demands that we fir
u get right with Cod. II begins al the K
- dlO ltttsS uit CONUy WuliS lIS ObueI !
ef ligiops begin 81 the bottom and try
N measure up. They stand at the foot
T the VEL, up to their knees in the mud
= humsn theory and speculation, and ha
TX s plUmznet snd string tied fast TO
IT. And they throw the piummet this wa
Is aud brezk head there; and throw Il
Il plummet another way and bre:
So head there; and then tn
er throw 1t up and It comes down on the
ne own pate Fools! Why will you stsl
en- 1T the foot OF the wall measuring up WIN
e you ought to stand at the top, measuriI
Q. down?
A few days ago I was in the couutI
thirsty sfter long walk. And I-came
Tt aad my child was blowing soap bubblt
-ic and they rolled cut of the cup, blue a
r. gold and green and sparkling, and bea
: tltul and orbicular, snd IN so small
fs space l never saw more beauty conce
,sr trnted. But she blew once too ofte
I'm aBd all the glory vanished into SUE
,se Then ! turned and took 9
$: GLASS OF PLAIN WATER,
nj and was refreshed. And SO far as 81
ep thirst IS concerned, put against al /
Fl glowing, gitteripg soap bubbles
he worldly reform end human speculate
he one draught from the fountain from unt